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I Subscribe To National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, And A Slew Of Other Magazines. And It Is While Reading Articles For Pleasure And Interest That An Interesting What If? Will Pop Into My Head.

Whenever I Start A Novel, I'm Always Looking For Two Things: A Bit Of Science That Makes Me Go 'what If?' And A Piece Of History That Ends In A Question Mark.

I Don't Actually Have A One Wellspring Of Inspiration. Though I'm Most Often Inspired While Reading - Both Fiction And Nonfiction.

I've Mis-signed Many A Book Rollins Or Clemens. My Readers Quickly Become Aware. Booksellers Will Often Promote Me Under Both Names, And I Do Plug Both At Signings. Generally, The Fantasy Reader Has No Problem Going Into The Suspense Genre. It's Harder For The Typical Suspense Reader To Go The Other Direction.

Growing Up With Three Brothers And Three Sisters, I Was The Storyteller Of The Family... What My Mother Called 'the Liar.'